Hasp fastening



Sept. 30, 1930. sw Er AL HASP FASTENING Filed April 8, 1929 \Y/LP/ Ag IN V EN TORS FIG. III

I ATTORNEX Patented Sept. 30, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFrc EDWARD A. SWEEIIEY, F ROSEMONT, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, AND NORMAN '.l..

ANDERSON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HASP FASTENING Our invention relates to hatch cover seal pins, and has for its object to provide an improved seal pin for locking the cover, or other object, in its position, to supersede the pin and attaching chain commonly used for the purpose, and which will possess ad- 'vantages some of which will be hereinafter described.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, the invention consists in the features hereinafter particularly described and then sought to be clearly defined by the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which Figure I is a perspective of portlon of a freight car, with the invention applied;

Figure II a top plan of the base-plate and slidable swinging locking hasps, on an enlarged scale;

Figure III a side elevationvof Figure II,

with the hatch-way door in section.

In Figure I of the drawing a hatch-way frame 1 is shown applied to an opening in the roof of a car through which the refrigerating substance, for instance ice, is supplied to the car, and 2 designates a cover for the o ening. The cover is attached to the roof y suitable hinges, which in the form illustrated comprise straps or leaves 3 bolted or otherwise secured to the cover or door, and leaves or straps 4 bolted or otherwise secured to the car roof, preferably to blocks 5 secured by bolts 6 to the car structure and on which the doors or cover may rest when thrown wide open.

, The seal pin for locking the cover either partially open, or completely closed, comprises a base-plate 7 which may be reinforced by parallel spaced apart ribs 8. The plate is formed at one or both ends with upwardly extending ears 9 and 10, the same being formed in pairs. with two to each pair the ears of each pair being spaced apart one from the other, and formed with perforations or apertures, the perforation of one registering with the perforation in the companion ear, so that a cooperating locking link 11 formed with perforations or apertures 12 50 may lie. between the ears, and receive the pin of a slidable and swinging or rotatable hasp, the pin being adapte to pass through registering apertures of the ears and link under various adjustments so as to secure and lock the cover either partially open or entirely closed,'thus making possible ventilation of the car through the hatch-way and at the same time preventing entrance to the car through the hatch-way for pilfering or other unauthorized or unlawful ends. The base-plate at the free edge of the cover is formed with a depending flange 13 which will lie against the edge of the cover and contribute to bracing or reinforcing the connection between the base-plate and cover, the plate being attached to the cover by suitable bolts 14 passing through the plate and body of the cover, the lower heads of the bolts being preferably countersunk into the body portion of the cover and the outer threaded ends being provided with lock nuts 15. The cars 9 located at the free end of the cover extend beyond the cover edge and project obliquely in an upward direction as shown so that the link will lie or be confined within or between the two cars in various angular adjustments of the link corresponding to the degree or extent to which the cover may be opened. The link will be hinged or pivotally connected by a loop or pintle lfi'through a plate 17 bolted to the car roof, or otherwise secured. If the cover be completely closed, the link 11 will extend between the ribs 8 and its end will lie between the ears 10 so that a pin of a slidable and rotatable hasp may pass through the registering perforations of the ears and link to lock the cover in its completely closed position and it may be additionally locked by the hasp pin which will pass through the ears 9 and apertures of the link registering therewith and thus a double or twofold locking of the cover in its closed position is effected. The link near its elbow is formed with an elongated slot or aperture 12" so as to compensate for any lack of snugness of fit between the parts when the cover is closed, and receive the pin of the locking hasp to lock the cover in its practically closed position.

The hasp carrying the locking pin that cooperates with the perforated hinged link and one or other of the pairs of perforated ears has a slidable and rotatable connection with the base-plate 7. The two hasps carrying pins, of which two are illustrated but one of which may be omitted or be inactive under same conditions, are practically alike but mounted slightly different one from the other to provide for a difference in the height of the two sets of ears or horizontal plane of the apertures in the two sets. The hasp elements, designated by the numeral 18, are alike and preferably formed of a suitable rod of metal bent upon itself at one end to form a loop or elongated eye 19 and having another portion bent to form a hook 20 the end of which may be tapered and have an eye or slot 21 to receive, when in holding position, a strip (not shown) constituting part of a well known type of seal for sealing the lock when effected. Each hasp is connected to the base-plate 7 by a bolt 22 passing through the base-plate and body portion of the cover as illustrated in Figure 111, and through the elongated I eye 19 of the hasp, the portion of the bolts above the base-plate being provided with a sleeve or ferrule 23, the ferrule for the hasp which cooperates with the ears 10 being somewhat longer than the ferrule to the other bolt so as to compensate for the difference in height of the erforations in the two sets of ears. Upon t e upper end of each ferrule a washer 24.- is positioned on which rests the elongated eye portion of the hasp, and above the eye portion 19 is positioned another washer 25, and a lock nut 26 is applied to the threaded end of each bolt. Each hasp is thus rotatably and slidably mounted on-the base plate. The position of the hasps when in looking position is indicated by full lines in Figures II, III, and the retracted position is indicated by dotted lines in Figure 11. It is preferable for freedom in manipulation of the two hasps to have them disposed at opposite sides of the base-plate as indicated in Figure I]: of the drawings.

The several features have been illustrated and described with particularity in their details but changes may be made in the details without departing from the essential features as sought to be defined in the appended claims.

Having described our invention and set forth its merits what we claim is:

1. A hasp-fastening, comprising a baseplate formed with spaced apart apertured ears to receive an apertured locking member, and a slidable and rotatable hasp mounted on the base-plate and formed at one end with an elongated eye to receive a bolt securing the hasp to the base-plate and having the other end deflected to project through the apertured ears and the locking member disposed between the ears.

2. A hasp-fastening, comprising a baseable an mamas plate formed with spaced apart apertured ears to receive an apertured lockin member, and a slidable and rotatable hasp ormed of a rod bent at one end to form an elongated eye to receive a bolt securing the hasp to the base-plate and having another portion deflected to form a hook to project through the apertured ears and the locking member disposed between the ears.

3. A hasp-fastening, comprising a baseplate formed with spaced apart apertured ears to receive an apertured locking member, a slidable and rotatable hasp mounted on the base-plate and formed at one end with an elongated eye, a bolt passed through the eye and base-plate to connect the two together, and a ferrule around the bolt disposed betweenthe eye portion of the hasp and base-plate.

4:. A hasp-fastening, comprising a baseplate formed with spaced apart apertured ears to receive an apertured locking member, a slidable and rotatable hasp mounted on the base-plate and formed at one end with an elongated eye, a bolt passed through the eye and base-plate to connect the two together, a ferrule around the bolt disposed between the eye portion of the hasp and baselate, and washers one disposed between the errule and eye portion of the hasp and the plther disposed over the eye portion of the asp.

5. A hasp-fastening, comprising a baseplate formed with a plurality of pairs of spaced apart apertured ears disposed at dif-' ferent oints on the base-plate, and a slid d rotatable hasp for each pair of ears mounted on the base-plate and formed at one end with an elongated eye to receive a bolt securing the hasps to the base-plate and having the other end deflected to project through the apertured ears and the locking member disposed between each pair of ears, the rotatable and slidable hasps eing s0 disposed in relation to the ears and locking member that a portion of one hasp may project through one pair of ears and locking member at one point and a portion of the other hasp project through the locking member at another point and through the companion pair of ears. v

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

EDWARD A. SWEELEY. NORMAN T. ANDERSON. 

